Higher salaries ‘needed to stem Italian brain drain’

Leading Italian academics often leave the country, which struggles to attract highly rated foreign researchers

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November 4, 2018

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November 6, 2018

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by SeanieFinneran on November 5, 2018 - 5:42am

And where are salaries linked to the QUALITY of their teaching and research?

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